December 18, 2016

GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) is a graph based image processing framework.
GEGLs original design was made to scratch GIMPs itches for a new
compositing and processing core. This core is being designed to have
minimal dependencies. and a simple well defined API.

Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your
network, and to email or page you when a problem arises or is
resolved. Nagios runs on a Unix server as a background or daemon
process, intermittently running checks on various services that you
specify. The actual service checks are performed by separate "plugin"
programs which return the status of the checks to Nagios. This package
contains those plugins.

zuluCrypt is a front end to cryptsetup.
It makes it easier to use cryptsetup by providing
a Qt-based GUI and a simpler to use CLI frontend
to cryptsetup.
It does the same thing truecrypt does but without
licensing problems or requiring a user to setup
sudo for it or presenting root's password.
This package contains the applications.

Mumble provides low-latency, high-quality voice communication for gamers.
It includes game linking, so voice from other players comes
from the direction of their characters, and has echo
cancellation so that the sound from your loudspeakers
won't be audible to other players.

ownCloud gives you universal access to your files through a web interface or
WebDAV. It also provides a platform to easily view & sync your contacts,
calendars and bookmarks across all your devices and enables basic editing right
on the web. ownCloud is extendable via a simple but powerful API for
applications and plugins.

The lensfun library provides an open source database of photographic lenses and
their characteristics. It not only provides a way to read and search the
database, but also provides a set of algorithms for correcting images based on
detailed knowledge of lens properties. Right now lensfun is designed to correct
distortion, transversal (also known as lateral) chromatic aberrations,
vignetting and color contribution of a lens.

This is a metapackage that provides both core R userspace and
all R development components.

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at
Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide
variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and
nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis,
classification, clustering, ...).

R is designed as a true computer language with control-flow
constructions for iteration and alternation, and it allows users to
add additional functionality by defining new functions. For
computationally intensive tasks, C, C++ and Fortran code can be linked
and called at run time.

An HTML to PostScript converter written in Perl.
* Many possibilities to control the appearance.
* Support for processing multiple documents.
* A table of contents can be generated.
* Configurable page headers/footers.
* Automatic hyphenation and text justification can be selected.

Byobu is a Japanese term for decorative, multi-panel screens that serve
as folding room dividers. As an open source project, Byobu is an
elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain,
practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile
and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager,
such as toggle-able system status notifications.

December 14, 2016

The Flight Gear project is working to create a sophisticated flight
simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting
flight simulator ideas. We are developing a solid basic sim that can be
expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing

Fedora Finder finds Fedora. For now, that means it finds Fedora images
- for stable releases, milestone pre-releases, TC/RC composes, and
nightly builds. It provides a simple CLI for showing image URLs, and
can be used as a library by tools which need to find and do stuff with
Fedora images.

strace - Tracks and displays system calls associated with a running process

The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and
received by a running process. Strace can print a record of each
system call, its arguments and its return value. Strace is useful for
diagnosing problems and debugging, as well as for instructional
purposes.

Install strace if you need a tool to track the system calls made and
received by a process.

MariaDB is a community developed branch of MySQL.
MariaDB is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server.
It is a client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld)
and many different client programs and libraries. The base package
contains the standard MariaDB/MySQL client programs and generic MySQL files.

Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services.
It supports over thirty services, such as S3 (Simple Storage Service),
SQS (Simple Queue Service), and EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) via their
REST and Query APIs. The goal of boto is to support the full breadth
and depth of Amazon Web Services. In addition, boto provides support
for other public services such as Google Storage in addition to private
cloud systems like Eucalyptus, OpenStack and Open Nebula.

OpenDMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance)
provides an open source library that implements the DMARC verification
service plus a milter-based filter application that can plug in to any
milter-aware MTA, including sendmail, Postfix, or any other MTA that supports
the milter protocol.

The DMARC sender authentication system is still a draft standard, working
towards RFC status.

Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and
authentication mechanisms. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward
the system and a plug-gable back-end system to connect to multiple different
account sources. It is also the basis to provide client auditing and policy
services for projects like FreeIPA.

The sssd sub-package is a meta-package that contains the daemon as well as all
the existing back ends.

While primarily aimed at (CMAN,rgmanager)->(Corosync/CMAN,Pacemaker) cluster
stacks configuration conversion (as per RHEL trend), the command-filter-format
framework (capable of XSLT) offers also other uses through its plugin library.

realmd is a DBus system service which manages discovery and enrollment in realms
and domains like Active Directory or IPA. The control center uses realmd as the
back end to 'join' a domain simply and automatically configure things correctly.

The Disk Pool Manager (DPM) is a lightweight storage solution for grid sites.
It offers a simple way to create a disk-based grid storage element and
supports relevant protocols (SRM, gridFTP, RFIO) for file
management and access.

Globus provides open source grid software, including a server implementation
of the GridFTP protocol. This plugin implements the DPM backend specifics
required to expose the data using this protocol.

Ansible tower-cli is a command line tool for Ansible Tower.
It allows Tower commands to be easily run from the Unix commandline. It can
also be used as a client library for other python apps, or as a reference
for others developing API interactions with Tower’s REST API.